Reel Recommendations: Cinema is Dreaming offers a historic journey through a century of cinema in pursuit of a fevered map of filmic dreams and dreamy films.

Ready for a second step into the cinema of the subconscious… let’s begin.

 

1930s

 

L’Age D’Or (Luis Buñuel, 1930)

 

 

 

Limite (Mário Peixoto,1931)

 

 

 

Frankenstein (James Whale, 1931)

 

 

 

Europa (Stefan & Fransiczka Themerson, 1931)

 

 

 

Freaks (Tod Browning, 1932)

 

 

 

Island of Lost Souls (Erle C. Kenton, 1932)

 

 

 

Vampyr (Carl Dreyer, 1932)

 

 

 

L’idee (Berthold Bartosch, 1932)

 

 

 

The Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau, 1932)

 

 

 

The Sin of Nora Moran (Phil Goldstone, 1933)

 

 

 

Zero de conduite (Jean Vigo, 1933)

 

 

 

Snow White, Betty Boop cartoon starring Cab Calloway (Dave Fleischer,1933)

 

 

 

L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)

 

 

 

Mad Love / The Hands of Orlac (Karle Freund, 1935)

 

 

 

Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell, 1936)

 

 

1940s

 

Fantasia (Walt Disney, 1940)

 

 

 

Stranger on the Third Floor (Boris Ingster, 1940)

 

 

 

Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942)

 

 

 

Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1943)

 

 

 

I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943)

 

 

 

Le Vampire (Jean Painelevé, 1945)

 

 

 

Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock, 1945)

 

 

 

La belle et la bête (Jean Cocteau, 1946)

 

 

 

The Potted Psalm (James Broughton & Sidney Peterson, 1946)

 

 

 

The Cage (Sidney Peterson, 1947)

 

 

 

Black Narcissus (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1947)

 

 

 

Dreams That Money Can Buy (Hans Richter, 1947)

 

 

 

Letter from and Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948)

 

 

 

On the Edge (Curtis Harrington, 1949)

 

 

 

Inspirace (Karl Zemen, 1949)